Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.1A Grade 12 CPI 3

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: A - Career Awareness and Planning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will analyze factors that can impact an individual’s career.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Statistics indicate that drugs have an impact on worker productivity and safety. As CEO, develop a program focusing on the reduction of substance abuse in the workplace.

 

·        Mr./Ms. Z's company has decided to relocate the employee and the family overseas. The employment opportunities exist in Australia, Brazil, China, Kenya, and Switzerland. Your family must make the decision as to the country of preference with a backup alternative. Provide a justification to the human resource department. Be prepared to negotiate a contract that meets career, financial, and personal needs.

 

·        An individual wants to select a career pathway….in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.

 

·        Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society" with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs.

 

·        Ethics in the Workplace

 

·        Role play both the employer and employee’s role when an employee has displayed behavior that indicates possible substance abuse.

 

·        Participate in the FCCLA National Programs that follow:
A. Power of One, Working on Working, Family Ties, and A Better You Units;
B. Career Connection;
C. Leaders at Work;
D. Community Service;
E. Student Body;
F. Dynamic Leadership;
G. Families First;
H. Financial Fitness; and/or
I. Stop the Violence.

 

·        Breakfast is often considered the most important meal of the day. Each student chooses/is assigned a country to research and report on. Information to be included in the report is the most common careers/occupations found in the country and the reason for availability of these careers. Include information on a typical breakfast in the country. Explain why the food choices are typical of the country. See the following resources for information:

Career Clusters: http://www.careerclusters.org/16clusters.htm;
The USDA Food Guide: http://www.mypyramid.gov;

      Foreign Foods: http://lkwdpl.org/lhs/foreignfoods/;

      FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America): http://www.fcclainc.org;
Health Web: http://my.webmd.com;
National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov;
National Center for Environmental Health: http://www.cdc.gov;
National Parenting Center: http://www.tnpc.com; and
Sites to Promote Academic Success: http://www.uni.edu/walsh/linda7.html.